The carrier will speed up connection times in Dubai for shipments
Emirates Vital and Emirates Medical Devices, developed in consultation with customers, address the global healthcare industry’s evolving needs and build on SkyCargo’s undisputed expertise and leadership in pharma logistics, the carrier recently announced.
Emirates SkyCargo has launched two new tailor-made solutions for the global healthcare industry under its refreshed and rebranded ‘Life Sciences and Healthcare’ product range.
The Emirates SkyCargo team will be working closely with specialist freight forwarders globally to roll out these new services, a press communique indicated.
“Our Pharma business is already a market leader, and each week we move around 2 million kilogrammes of pharmaceutical cargo across the globe. Since 2015, we’ve invested over $200m to build our capabilities and now we have very strong expertise and insights into the pharma and broader life sciences space,” noted Nabil Sultan, Divisional Senior Vice President, Emirates SkyCargo.
Facilitating a new era in global healthcare air logistics
Transporting clinical trials, human organs and tissues, cell and gene therapy, Emirates Vital (AXT) will be a white glove service with Emirates control tower team monitoring every shipment making sure we deliver as promised.
The carrier will speed up connection times in Dubai for shipments with transit times of under four hours by utilising the bulk hold of the aircraft and dedicated vans on the ramp to move the shipments to the connecting flights, the press note continued.
Emirates Medical Devices (AXM) is another new stand-alone product to support the movement of equipment for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and monitoring of diseases. The service, which is designed to transport everything from ventilators and test kits, to X-ray machines and MRIs, ensures all cargo moved follows the developing Medical Device Regulations and Good Distribution Practice (GDP) compliant.
World-leading logistics facilities
Emirates SkyCargo offers belly-hold cargo capacity on Emirates’ fleet of modern wide-body aircraft, as well as in 11 dedicated Boeing 777 freighters. It operates two state-of-the-art cargo terminals at its hub in Dubai, offering transit times of as little as three hours air-to-air.
The terminals offer a total cargo capacity of around one million tonnes per year, with the ability to raise this to 1.3 million tonnes. There is 15,000sqm of dedicated storage for temperature-sensitive goods such as perishables and pharmaceuticals.
SkyCargo’s Pharma cool chain handling capabilities include 9 main deck cool dollies, 41 lower deck cool dollies, as well as 12 refrigerated trucks. The three-tier product range provides shipping capabilities for everything from high temperature tolerance pharmaceuticals, right the way through to high value cargo requiring active container temperature control.
Future growth
The new solutions offered under Life Science and Healthcare are the first of more developments to follow in Emirates SkyCargo’s ambition to lead the market in delivering specialist solutions that are fast, reliable, flexible, and efficient.
The cargo airline leverages the vast global network capabilities of Emirates and the world-class logistics infrastructure at its Dubai hub; and it makes continual investments in digitalisation, technology, facilities, and building its team of logistics specialists.
